If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
PAUL SIMONThe trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
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I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
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I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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